Thomas Heathcote

Thomas Heathcote

Рождение : 1917-09-09,

Смерть : 1986-01-05

Профиль

Thomas Heathcote

Фильмы

The Shooting Party
Ogden
1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal decrepitude of a dying class is reflected in the social interactions and hypocrisy of its members, only world weary Sir Randolph seems to realise that the sun is setting.
Exploits at West Poley
Farmer Will Gant
Somerset 1850. Two boys exploring an underground cave, divert the course of a river and drastically change the lives of the people of two villages.
The Jigsaw Man
Gamekeeper
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.
Trial by Combat
Tramp
A group called The Knights Of Avalon are unhappy with the justice system so are taking the law into their own hands by executing criminals using medieval methods such as jousting.
Luther
Friend
One sixteenth-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart.
Demons of the Mind
Coachman
A physician discovers that two children are being kept virtually imprisoned in their house by their father. He investigates, and discovers a web of sex, incest and satanic possession.
Burke & Hare
Paterson
Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
Ужасный доктор Файбс
2nd Policeman
После того, как бригада хирургов неудачно прооперировала его жену, оставив ее умирать, доктор Файбс решил: «Девятеро убили ее, девятеро должны умереть!» Одно за другим Файбс придумывает искусные убийства, основанные на ветхозаветных десяти казнях египетских. Это и нашествие саранчи и атака яростных крыс и летучие мыши — вампиры.
A Day at the Beach
Bernie is a silver tongued wanderer with a fondness for drink and no clear goal in life. What was supposed to be a day of fun at the seaside turns to dust as he drinks his way through a seaside resort community, trailing his little niece Winnie.
Куотермасс и колодец
Vicar
Работы в лондонском метрополитене приводят к обнаружению космического корабля, прибывшего с Марса пять миллионов лет тому назад. Внутри ученые обнаруживают странные кости и черепа, принадлежащие обезьяноподобным существам. По мнению профессора Куотермасса, именно инопланетяне были источником пробуждения интеллекта на Земле. Тем временем, один рабочий утверждает, что видел некое зеленоватое существо, пересекшее внутренний отсек корабля. Неужели марсиане все еще находятся на нашей планете? Может быть, это они придумали легенду про дьявола, чтобы зло проникло в наше подсознание?
Night of the Big Heat
Bob Hayward
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to blame.
Человек на все времена
Boatman
События, исторически достоверно воспроизведенные на экране, происходят в Англии XVI века, во времена правления короля Генриха VIII. В основе сюжета — конфликт между королем и лордом-канцлером Томасом Мором, великим гуманистом, государственным деятелем, выдающимися юристом и философом.
Билли Бад
Alan Payne, Maintopman
1797 год. Билли Бад, молодой моряк, призван служить на британский военный корабль. Билли не склонен к конфликтам. Даже с каптенармусом Клэгертом, лютым врагом всей команды, он старается наладить контакт. Однако Клэгерт в присутствии капитана судна обвиняет Билли в подготовке мятежа. Билли настолько возмущён, что отвечает ударом, который по роковому стечению обстоятельств оказывается смертельным.
On the Fiddle
Sergeant
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
Деревня проклятых
James Pawle
Все жители маленькой английской деревни на несколько часов теряют сознание. После пробуждения все женщины детородного возраста оказываются беременными. Появившиеся на свет дети имеют одинаковый цвет волос, странные глаза и сильно привязаны друг к другу.
Tread Softly Stranger
Sgt. Lamb
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
Гибель «Титаника»
Steward
Апрель 1912 года. Незабываемая ночь, вошедшая в историю человечества как ночь самых страшных потерь и самых больших приобретений. Человеческие потери не сравнимы ни с чем, но и приобретения человеческого духа также невозможно ничем измерить. Итак, 14 апреля. В Соединенные Штаты отправляется самый классный, самый непотопляемый в мире пассажирский лайнер с 2 207 пассажирами и членами команды на борту.
Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Mr. Monaghan
While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
Tiger in the Smoke
Rolly Gripper
Having been sent a picture of her husband, a war hero killed in France, Meg Elgin is led to believe he is still alive and arranges a meeting at a London railway station. When she arrives there with the police accompanying her, she catches sight of a man in the distance wearing an old coat of her husband's. When he is pursued and captured, he turns out to be Duds Morrison a former soldier and out-of-work actor recently let out of prison. He refuses to tell them anything, and having nothing they can charge him with, the police release him. His interest aroused by the pictures sent to Meg, her new fiancé Geoffrey Leavitt follows Morrison and tries to demand an answer from him about his sudden appearance masquerading as Meg’s dead husband.
Eyewitness
Tom - Barman
When she has a fight, with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who are robbing the cinema's safe. In her haste to escape the thieves, she is knocked down by a passing bus, and is taken to the local hospital. The two crooks follow, and wait for a chance to finish her off, and thus eliminate the only person who can tie them to the robbery.
The Last Man to Hang
Bracket
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
Доктор на море
Wilson
Саймон Спэрроу устраивается работать судовым врачом. Он предполагает, что его ждет спокойное плавание. Однако на борт корабля поднимаются дочь судовладельца и певичка-француженка. Говорят, что женщина на корабле - к несчастью, а тут их сразу две...
Волны над нами
Hutchins
Фильм рассказывает о реальных событиях октября 1942-го и сентября 1943-го годов, когда англичане совершили попытки вывести из строя немейкий линкор "Тирпиц" - операциях "Title" и "Source". Изменены лишь имена участников событий и некоторые детали операций- возможно из соображений секретности. "Тирпиц" укрывался в норвежских фьордах, и одним своим присутствием в северных водах угрожал. Атлантическим конвоям и сковывал значительные силы Британского флота. Для устранения этой угрозы, британским подводникам пришлось преодолеть множество трудностей - неспокойное Северное море, немецкий флот, береговые батареи. Участник операции "Source" - Дональд Кэмерон - был военным советником при съемках фильма. За эту операцию он был награжден крестом Виктории.
The Seekers
Sgt. Paul
A western set in New Zealand during the 1820s following a group of British pioneers seeking a new life Down Under.
The Large Rope
James Gore
After being framed for a murder he didn't commit, Tom Penney (Donald Houston) serves his time and returns to his rural English home to establish a quiet life. When another victim is found, however, Tom is blamed for the crime and flees rather than returnng to prison. Hoping to find the real killer -- or killers -- Tom investigates while keeping a low profile to elude his pursuers, and a vital clue leads him on the path to possible redemption.
The Red Beret
Alf
Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts an investigation. He redeems himself during combat. The film was titled "Paratrooper" in the US.
The Sword and the Rose
Wrestling Second
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.
Malta Story
Radar Operator
In 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements.
Blood Orange
Detective Sgt. Jessup
Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.
Dance Hall
Fred
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.